Comparison of US and Chinese Military Armed Forces

Table comparison between the US and Chinese Military as for 2011.

Armed Forces	United States Military	Chinese Military
Official name	United States Armed Forces	People's Liberation Army 中国人民解放军
Service Branches	U.S. Army U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Navy U.S. Air Force U.S. Coast Guard	PLA Ground Force PLA Navy PLA Air Force Second Artillery Corps People's Armed Police
Leadership	Commander-in-Chief President Barack Obama Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen	Chairman of Central Military Commission Hu Jintao Minister of National Defense General Liang Guanglie Chief of PLA General Staff General Chen Bingde
Active Personell	1,477,896 approx. (ranked 3rd)	2,285,000 approx. (ranked 1st)
Budget	$692 billion (FY10) (1st by total expenditure, 11th as percent of GDP)	$100 billion (FY11) 603,1 billion Yuan (2011) (ranked 2nd)
Percent of GDP	4.7% (2010 est.)	1.65% (2011 est.)
Nuclear Arsenal	5,113 warheads (ranked 1st.)	240 warheads (ranked 2nd.)
Major Wars and Events	American War of Independence (1775–1783) Early national period (1783–1812) War with Mexico (1846–48) American Civil War (1861–1865) Post-Civil War era (1865–1917) Indian Wars (1865–1870) Spanish-American War (1898) Philippine-American War (1899–1902) Banana Wars (1898–1935) Moro Rebellion (1899–1913) World War I (1917–1918) World War II (1941–1945) Cold War (1945–1991) Korean War (1950–1953) Vietnam War (1959–1975) Gulf War (1991) Kosovo War (1999) War on Terrorism (2001–present) War in Afghanistan (2001–present) Iraq War (2003–2010)	Chinese Civil War against the Kuomintang (KMT) as the Chinese Red Army. (1927–1949) World War II against the Empire of Japan. (1937–1945) Yangtze Incident (the battle against British warships on the Yangtze River. (1949) Reclaiming of Tibet (1950–1951) Korean War (Under the banner of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army). (1950–1954) First Taiwan Strait Crisis. (1954–1955) Second Taiwan Strait Crisis at Quemoy and Matsu. (1958) Sino-Indian War. (1962-1962) Border skirmishes with India.(1967) Vietnam War (over 320,000 Chinese soldiers served in North Vietnam throughout the war). (1965–1970) Sino-Soviet border conflict. (1969 to 1978) Battle of the Paracel Islands. (1974) Sino-Vietnamese War. (1974) Border and naval skirmishes with Vietnam. (1986,1988) Tiananmen Square protests (1989). Third Taiwan Strait Crisis. (1995–1996) PLA Control of Hong Kong's Military Defense (1997) PLA Control of Macau's Military Defense (1999)